The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has entered into a joint development agreement with Brahms Oil Refineries to develop and finance Guinea’s maiden refinery project in Kamsar, Guinea. The project is expected to reduce the country’s dependence on imported refined products and enhance its balance of payments.

In regulated markets — Europe, USA, Japan — barrier technologies are generally used in modern-day manufacturing and in bottling and sealing processes. There are many options for pharmaceutical companies, with decisions to be made on whether to use existing clean rooms with new or overhauled bottling and packaging systems or whether to invest in completely new processing technology.

Kaeser offers its proven Sigma Air Manager 4.0 master controller, which previously revolutionised the rotary screw compressor segment, to the application for blowers.

Chiyoda, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Nippon Yusen announced the creation of the world’s first global hydrogen supply chain demonstration project in Japan.

A joint research cooperation by GEA Niro and the Danish Technical University (DTU) investigates the behaviour of bulk flows within spray dryers – with laboratory scale simulation and state of the art CFD technology the partners aim for a better understanding of turbulent flow processes.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Wilden's air-operated double-diaphragm pump (AODD) pumps of the ATEX-rated Advanced Series safely contain and transfer even the most hazardous solvents, including trichlorethane, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, methyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform.

Solvent cementing is an ideal and proven jointing method for numerous applications in industrial pipeline engineering, one example in particular being pipelines used to transport aggressive chemical media. Two examples in the article demonstrate the advantages of this method.

Indian Oil and carbon recycling company Lanzatech have signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery off gas-to-bioethanol production facility in India.

Viewed in terms of energy cost of ownership over their entire service lives, compressors, air blowers and vacuum generators cost much more to run than they do to purchase and install. Which is why many manufacturers will be using this year’s Comvac, the leading trade fair for compressed air and vacuum technology, to highlight the energy efficiency of their systems.

In light of the considerably lower likelihood of occurrence of explosions in comparison with fires, the question of the meaningfulness of what are often more cost-intensive investments in appropriate explosion protection measures is understandable. However, more interesting in this context is the question of what in fact is to be understood by “appropriate” explosion protection measures?